At 11:18 AM 12/16/96 -0500, you wrote:
>MANHASSET PRESS, DEC. 19 ISSUE
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>BK IN SO. BEACH, MIAMI TILL DEC 27
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Bernardo, there are a couple of things about your posts that perhaps you haven't considered. I'm not being critical but constructive.
The use of extended CC: adds the list of recipients to the post...if you used the BCC: function, each recipient would still get the post but without the laundry list of 100 recipients being contained in the post. Your mail program would just substitute a different name on the To: line of each message.
I'm sure that you would like for list recipients to be able to read your attachments and also enable the 'gems', contained therein, to be found with the archive software. Neither options is available with the method you now use.
Sending a doc or for that matter any other file created with a particular word processor is useless to 98 percent of the subscribers of the parkinsn list. The internet comprises of folks using main frame, macs and pcs....attachments have to be read as text....without the use of the same word processor that created the file.
TO ATTACH OR NOT
The only time an attachment should be used is to attach a sound file, zip or picture to email. Other things like articles should be converted to ascii and be pasted into the body of the message....not attached.
Archive searches will then be able to scan your article for posterity...but it will not...if you attach it.
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Who much receives, but nothing gives;
HomeBoy #Parkinsons Whom none can love, whom none can thank,--
Creation's blot, creation's blank.
John Cottingham Thomas Gibbons (1720-1785): When Jesus dwelt.
